View full sizeThe owners of Stancatoâs Italian Restaurant in Parma hope the restaurant will look like this before the end of the year. The drawing was submitted by RSA Architects LLC in Chagrin Falls.

PARMA

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A plan by Stancato’s Italian Restaurant to renovate its exterior and interior was approved June 27 by the Planning Commission.

Stancato’s, at 7380 State Road, plans to enlarge an existing outdoor patio and add columns and an ornamental fence to the patio.

The restaurant will remove existing skylights in the upper part of its building fa ade and increase the height of a parapet or wall along the roof.

In addition, Stancato’s will install new windows and window awnings and add cultured or cast stone and stucco to the building fa ade.

The restaurant will also install new sidewalks and landscaping along two sides of the building and replace a pedestrian walkway leading to the building.

“I appreciate seeing this,” said John Bischof, a planning commissioner. “This will do something very good for Parma.”

Presenting the plan to the commission were Lori Stancato, president of Stancato’s, and Anthony Majc, an architect with RSA Architects LLC in Chagrin Falls.

Majc said Stancato’s will rework the inside of the restaurant so that it is all on one level.

Now, the restaurant interior is at different levels, at least partly because “bits and pieces” of the building were “tacked on” over the years. The restaurant opened in 1971.

Stancato told the Sun Post that reducing the restaurant interior to one level will accommodate the elderly.

“It’s only two steps down but people complained about it,” Stancato said.

Majc said the renovation will also eliminate the “maze” that is in the restaurant now.

“We’re hoping there will be a nicer flow to it,” Majc said.

Stancato said she hopes the renovation will be done by the end of the year.

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